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4 KITGHEN RANGE BOILPR.

Patented Mar. 14,1882.

ATTORNEY N. PETERS'. Pnawulngnphur. wmingmn. n. x;

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

THEODOR HEPE, OF NEY YORK, N. Y.

KITCHEN-RANGE BOILER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,973, dated March 14, 1882. Application filed November 14, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: l ofthe boiler against injury while handling it Beit known that LTHEODOR I-IEPE, ofthe in shipping and setting up, hut which forms city, county, and State ofl New York, have insuch an intimate connection between body and vented certain new and useful Improvements bottom that the otherwise frequent leakage at` in KitchenStove Boilers, ot' which the followthis point can never occur. The boiler is final 6o ing is a speciiication. ly galvanized, and forms avery durable and This invention has reference to improve strong boiler i'or hitchenranges. ments in galvanized hot-water` boilers, with I ain aware that the English Patent No.

y stamped-up steel bottoms, for ranges; and the 1,450 ot 1863, shows a metallic can in which 1o invention relates more especially to a threethe bottom is provided with a downward in- 65 l'old connection of the steel bottom with the ner flange and an upward outer return-flange sheet-iron body ot' thc'boiler, so-that the botof' greater depth than the inner flange, which tom edge ofthe boileris fully protected against bottom may be riveted to the body by rivets injury in shipping and handling, and leakage passing through the body and outer flange of' the same is prevented in a most effective above the innerange. In this casethe outer 7o manner. flange is not calked to the body, and therivets The invention consists of a hot-water boiler passing through the outer flange would serve 7 for ranges consisting of' a straight cylindrical to indent it, producing an irregular surface, body and a' sheetmetal bottom having a verwhich would interfere with a proper calhing 2o tical downward iiange adapted to fit the intethereof'. Moreover, the rivets do not pass 75 rior ofthe body, and an outward and upward through the inner flange, and such ajointdoes return-flange of' less depth than the downward not have the strength and security of mine, flange, the said body and bottom being united, and would be of doubtful utility in a rangeirst, by a series ot' rivets passing through the boiler.

.z5 body and downward flange above the upward 1I am also aware that a coal-bod has been 8c retnrn-liange; secondly, by-means of' the npmadein which the bottom has a downward inwardoverlapping return-flange, and, thirdly, ner flange and an'upward outer return-flange by the calking down ofthe edge ofthe returnot" equal depth with the inner flange, the body flange, as will more i'ully appear hereinafter. and bottom being united by rivets passing 3o In the accompanying drawings, Figure l through both angcs, the intermediate body, 85 represents a side elevation of'myiniproved hot.- and the base or hoop. In'this case the rivets water boiler for ranges, and Fig. 2 is a verare near the outer edge of the return-flange, ticalecntrtlsection through the bottom ofthe and the latter is not and cannot be properly same. calked. Similar letters of' reference indlcate corre'- I-Iavingthusdescribedmyinvent1on,Icla1m 9o s iondino )arts as new and desire to secure b yLetters Patent- Referring to the drawings, A designates the A rangeboiler consisting ot' a sheet-metal body of my improved hot-water boiler for body with a suitable top and a sheet-metal ranges, which body is made ofsheetiron which bottom having a vertical downward flange 4o is riveted to the bottom head at the overlapadapted to t the interior ofthe body, and an 95 pingjoint. rIlle bottom edge of' the bodyAis outward and upward return -fiange of less secured to the stampedup steel bottom B first depth than the downward flange overlapping by a row of' rivets. a, which pass through the the lower edge of the body, the downward iron body A, and a downwardly extending flange being riveted to the body above the reflange, b, ofthe steel bottom B. The flange b turn-flange, and thereturndlange being calked roo of' the bottom B is stamped up with an outto the body below thc rivets, substantially as wardly-bent U-shaped rim, d, into which the described. lower edge of' the body A is set. The rim d is In testimony that I claim the foregoing as tightly secured to the lower part of the body my invention I have signed my name in pres 5o A, and its upper exterior edge is calked down ence of two subscribing witnesses.

on the same. By means of' the rivets a, the

U-shaped annular rim of' the bottom B, and y ILEEODOR HE'PE the calking a threefold connection between Witnesses:

the body A and bottom B is obtained, which PAUL GOEPEL, not only protects the lower edge of the body CARL KARP. 

